THE SECOND SrKAYlNG 
No chances taken on our planf farms: tve shoot- before the enemy comes in sight. Immediately 
after the plants are all set we load up our four row power sprayer with Bordeaux mixture and Paris trreen, 
going over the entire eighty acres of plants every ten days. Liver of sulphur is used at intervals to pre- 
vent mildew. No fungi or insects are allowed to interfere with the growth of plants; the lungs and stom- 
ach (foliasej are kept in a healthy crndltlon, which assures perfect development. 
gin to propagate it from its buds; that is, run- 
ners, and if this propagation is carefully car- 
ried on by restriction and selection, as we 
have already explained, the variety will retain 
its characteristics many years. The develop- 
ment of new varieties by seed propagation is 
intensely interesting for even though many 
hundred of the varieties will be inferior to the 
parent plant in quality of fruit, yet the one 
contribution of a superior variety repays in 
satisfaction for all of the time and patience 
needed to produce it. 
PROPAGATION BY RUNNERS. 
The structure of the strawberry plant and 
of the peach tree is the same, each being such 
as adapts it to its nature of growth. In front 
of the mature leaf of each may be found a bud 
which on the peach tree may develop into a 
branch, and on the strawberry plant into a run- 
ner; in fact the runner is the branch of the 
strawberry plant. It forms a bud or node and 
protoplasm collects in it and thus a new being 
is formed. When leaves and roots are formed 
to support it, the connecting vine dries up and 
dies and we have a new and distinct creation. 
The important point to note is that the new 
plant has essentially the same gland system 
as that from which the runner came. It is the 
same with all trees and other plants propa 
gated by grafting, cutting and buds. It is 
called propagation, sexually or without the aid 
of the sexes. 
PLANT PEDIGREE. 
Pedigree plants means plants scientifically 
developed. The word "science" means knowl- 
edge classified, or in other words, work carried 
on under a well-plau'ied and defined system. 
The word "pedigree" means a description of 
the individual ancestry in a lineal ascent. All 
animals have a pedigree, but all animals are 
not called pedigree animals because the word 
is always used in a technical sense. It means 
skillful breeding. 
The native cattle of the western plains are 
bred on the hit and miss plan without selec- 
tion and restriction by the trained eye and 
hand of man. As they have no organism for 
converting grain and grass into the tender 
steaks all their food goes into skin, bone and 
gristle. Shorthorns and other thoroughbred 
stock being developed by scientific selection, 
restriction, proper environment, and the ac- 
cumulation of good variations, have their 
higher qualities of flesh tissues developed to 
the extent that their meat value is more than 
twice that of native western stock. What a 
wide difference there is in the flesh of the two 
classes of animals! There is the same' dififer- 
ence in plants. One, through scientific treat- 
ment, selection, restriction, proper environ- 
ment.5 and accumulations of good variations, is 
said to be thoroughbred, and the pedigree or 
description of each ancestor shows that it has 
been carried on long enough to fix these feat- 
ures in the plant so it will be transmitted. 
Since all our plants are bred in this way we 
have adopted a trade mark which is protected 
by common law and designates the stock we 
furnish as "Pedigree Thoroughbred Plants," 
to designate them from plants commonly 
grown like the wild cattle of the plains. 
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